Infection-related hospitalizations and deaths among nursing home residents decreased as a result of a coordinated intervention adopted by facilities, along with hospitals and long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs). The intervention, called SHIELD-OC, was centered around reducing superbugs, or multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), and involved 35 health care facilities in Orange County, Calif., according to a study […]
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With dementia being one of the leading indications for nursing home placement, developing and perfecting models to predict level of care can be crucial when patients and families – and nursing homes – dive into future planning. Simple self-reporting or proxy responses by patients on models are good ways to estimate if and when a […]
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